In the days when Thomas Hoving was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1967 to 1977, his supporters often charged that his critics were much too hard on him. Were his de-accessioning ...

Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost. By Graham Bowley A top ...

On the late Thomas Hoving (1931–2009). Yet as director of the Met, he was—or at least he seemed at the time to be—a cultural colossus. His sense of showmanship (a word that is inevitable in ...

Thomas Hoving, whose 10-year stewardship of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is credited with remaking that New York institution and major art museums nationwide, died Thursday of lung cancer at his ...

Thomas Hoving, a controversial fixture of the art world who turned New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art into a hot spot during his decade as its director, helping to pioneer the blockbuster ...